Permo-Carboniferous

(redirected from Permo-Carboniferous Glaciation)

[¦pər·mō‚kär·bə′nif·ə·rəs]

(geology)

The Permian and Carboniferous periods considered as one unit.

The Permian and Pennsylvanian periods considered as a single unit.

The rock unit, or the period of geologic time, transitional between the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian periods.

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These phases could correspond to the last pulses of the major Permo-Carboniferous glaciation.

(2002): Low atmospheric C[O.sub.2] levels during the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation inferred from fossil lycopsids.

6) was careful to stress that the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation 'when ice reached the tropics' ...